Grants That Make a Difference
May 1, 2006
New York Nonprofits Receive Grants to Improve Immigrant Health Care
Newcomer populations in the New York metropolitan area face serious income, eligibility, and language barriers in finding adequate health care for themselves and their families. Recognizing that part of the problem lies in the lack of information among some immigrant groups about the overall health care delivery system in the United States, The New York Community Trust has recently awarded a total of $600,000 in grants to programs that target the information needs of immigrant New Yorkers.
The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City received a $100,000 grant to provide health programs and materials for non-English speakers on cancer screening, diabetes, and insurance eligibility.
Supporting other efforts to bridge the health disparities experienced by many immigrant New Yorkers, the New York Community Trust funded the New York Immigration Coalition, an umbrella organization for some 150 organizations serving immigrant groups in New York State, and the New York University School of Medicine's Center for Immigrant Health. Both of these organizations will create informational materials and develop educational programs that help connect immigrant and refugee communities with the health care system. The guides will be designed to help immigrants better understand general medical information on diagnoses, treatment, and medication, and have a clearer picture of how health care organizations and the eligibility requirements for government funded health insurance work. A final proposed objective of these grants is to help community groups and hospitals serve newcomer populations more effectively and to develop a set of recommendations to make it easier for immigrants to get health care. The $300,000 grant to NYU will also fund the activities of the Center's Cancer Awareness Network for Immigrant Minority Populations, a project designed to increase the use by immigrants of health services for cancer prevention, detection, and treatment.
Source: The New York Community Trust. Grants Newsletter. "Ensuring Health", (February 2006).
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